Chan Heng Chee DUBC PJG PPA(E) (Chinese: 陈庆珠; born 19 April 1942) is a Singaporean academic and diplomat who has been serving as Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2012, Chairwoman of the National Arts Council and Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights.

[3] She is the current chairman of the ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute[4] and the former chair of the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.

Chan left her post as Singapore's Ambassador to the US on 23 July 2012, and was replaced by Ashok Kumar Mirpuri.

In May 2003, Singapore and US signed the US-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA), the first FTA that the US entered into with a Southeast Asian country.

[12] From November 2012 to October 2015, the Singaporean government appointed her for a three-year term service as Singapore’s Representative to the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), succeeding Singapore’s first AICHR Representative, Mr Richard R.

[3] In October 2015, Chan's call to retain the Chinese-Malay-Indian-Others framework as it "sets minority communities here at ease" sparked a debate, with a Malay Singaporean finding her "very wrong.

[13][14] An online poll on Dialectic.sg found a majority of 52.8% of the respondents in favour of abandoning such racial categorisation.

Chan, NAC's chairman, did not warn the organisers, the strictly no-censorship SGIFF, of her talk's contents.

[16] In February 2016, Chan, who is on the Yale-NUS College governing board, delivered a speech defending Singapore's decision to uphold Section 377A at the 24th session of the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review in Geneva, Switzerland.